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Why don't skeletons play music in church? Because they got no organs.

— The Centipede  ·  James and the Giant Peach

A cluster of white porcelain organ pipes beside a small ribcage-shaped rack on a purple and lime background.
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It's a groaner of a pun. Skeletons supposedly can't play music in church because they lack organs, which works two ways: the instrument found in churches, and the body parts a skeleton doesn't have. The fun is in the double meaning.

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